'True Detective' may not return for season 3 - but do fans even care?

"True Detective" may not return for a third season, according to media reports floating around the web, but fans seems to be taking the news in stride.

Series creator Nic Pizzolatto, who recently signed to an overall deal with HBO, will likely focus on other original ideas rather than revisit the series that launched him to super-stardom with the premium cable network.

The limited amount of reactions range from those wishing the network wouldn't give up on the series after one bad season to those still harping on just how bad Season 2 was.

"Man, when your series has a 2nd season so awful that it kills it entirely..." mused one fan on Twitter.

Season 1 of the anthology crime drama, starring Matthew McConanaughey and Woody Harrelson, became a pop culture phenomenon. Season 2, however, failed to live up to expectations. Critics and fans, alike, bashed the second season for a complicated storyline revolving around a mobster played by Vince Vaughn, along with detectives played by Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch.

In January of this year, then-programming president Michael Lombardo took responsibility for how Season 2 of "True Detective" turned out.

"Well, you know what? I set him up to deliver, in a very short timeframe, something that became very challenging to deliver," Lombardo said during a KPCC interview. "That's not what that show is. He had to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. Find his muse. And so I think that's what I learned from it. Don't do that anymore."